The Flaming Meteor

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Excerpt from The Flaming Meteor: Poetical Works of Will Hubbard-Kernan In presenting the present volume to the public, I realize that it is a risky venture, for the literary market has long been surfeited with verse, and the impression has gone forth that the "poets are all dead." A certain nineteenth-century censor once said: "All poetry was written by men who were dead and dust before any of us were born, and it is impossible to conceive an idea of a poetical type younger than the bards who went down to death before America had been awaked to civilization." But I hold that the censor in question was too sweeping in his assertion, that, in the advance of time, new thoughts, feelings and ambitions have come to animate humanity, that lofty and luminous sentiments have sprung from the laws of liberty, unknown in the time when the Blind Bard of Scio swept his harp, that all best and brightest literature is the consummate flower of the cycle that is now thundering and throbbing into the eternity which it will forever electrify. In introducing to the world in book form the poetical works of Will Hubbard-Kernan, I feel that I am rescuing from the "rounds of the press" some of the choicest flowers that bedeck American literature, which will raise from obscurity and darkness, into the blazing light of a never-ending day, a name that shall endure among the great of our country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.